Download or read book The Story of Henry Ford An American Dream Cone True written by Henry Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEW PEOPLE have had the transformative success as Henry Ford of Dearborn Michigan, USA. While his life-story transformed the nation and the world, the effects on its author are less understood. The purpose of this book is to explore his story as an additional study to Napoleon Hill's bestselling "Think and Grow Rich." In Hill's book, few individuals in it have more anecdotes used as examples than Ford - excepting Thomas Edison himself (who gave Ford an early boost in one of his companies.) In most days, people are challenged by their environment. They can rise to the challenge, or succumb to it. A rare few among them can see opportunity and seize it - creating a new world from a unique and unstoppable vision they hold. With Ford, we can also gain more insight into his philosophy of achievement, and how this affected Hill in his own studies. Even today, Ford's ideals have a great deal to say about how we can approach our own life. Now, it's over to you.
Download or read book Henry Ford s Dream written by Ann Thomas and published by Deep End. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, New York City had to remove 1800 tonnes of horse manure from the streets each day. Cars were rare. You had to be wealthy to afford a car. But Henry Ford had a dream. He wanted to make a car that almost anyone could afford to buy, almost anyone could drive, and that was so simple that almost anyone could repair it. Ford fulfilled his dream. Assembly Lines tell you how. It tells the story of the world's first car assembly line.
Download or read book Ford and the American Dream written by Clifton Lambreth and published by Mary Calia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of real-life financial difficulties faced by the Ford Motor Company.
Download or read book Henry Ford s Dream written by Miriam Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford written by Beth Tompkins Bates and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Adrian A. Paradis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-read biography of the man whose natural mechanical ability enabled him to realize his childhood dream and make a fortune by building an engine that would replace the horse.
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Rev. Samuel S. Marquis and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this biography is widely regarded by many automotive historians as the finest and most dispassionate character study of Henry Ford ever written. Written by the Reverend Samuel S. Marquis, an Episcopalian minister who was also the head of the sociology department at Ford Motor Company, this collection of essays serves to analyze the “psychological puzzle such as the unusual mind and personality of Henry Ford presents.” A gripping read for history buffs and fans of historical biographies. “Students of Henry Ford should be delighted by this republication of Samuel S. Marquis’s shrewd evaluation of the legendary industrialist. A close friend and associate of Ford for many years, Marquis developed many compelling insights into the automobile maker’s character and personality. One comes away from this book with a much greater sense of what made Ford tick.”—STEVEN WATTS, Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia and author of The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century “Marquis was the first Ford intimate to criticize the industrialist in print. Aware that he was treading on thin ice, Marquis recalled that Ford had told him that ‘the best friend one has is the man who tells him the truth.’ Hopefully, the clergyman remarked, ‘[he] will receive the critical portion of these pages in the same spirit.’ Ford emphatically did not...Marquis’s book would have been widely read had not the Ford organization been fairly successful in buying up copies and persuading book dealers not to sell it.”—DAVID L. LEWIS
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Jeffrey Zuehlke and published by Lerner Classroom. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. He was a curious child with an aptitude for mechanics. At the age of sixteen, Ford moved to Detroit to serve as an apprentice machinist. In 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company, where he began manufacturing the popular Model T automobile. To fulfill the public's demand for this car, Ford opened a factory in Highland Park, Michigan. There, he introduced the moving assembly line-a brand-new way to manufacture automobiles. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Ford began construction of an even larger factory along the Rouge River in Dearborn. The plant embodied Ford's dream of producing affordable automobiles of exceptional quality.
Download or read book Driven written by Don Mitchell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.
Download or read book Beyond the Model T written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to this edition are chronicles of factory and general hospitals, nursing schools and services, health clinics, and a research institute established by Henry Ford, and the more than a dozen commissaries Ford operated, selling a wide assortment of items to Ford employees and their families from pillow cases to children's shoes.
Download or read book The People s Tycoon written by Steven Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.
Download or read book Driven written by Don Mitchell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.
Download or read book My Past Life with Henry Ford written by Victoria Gray and published by 979-8-88895-630-4. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Gray's book presents a brief history of time travel from the beyond. When she had all the resources to expect the unexpected, she traveled to Detroit. Why? She needed to know if what Henry Ford gifted her in the dream state, was, in fact, true. Victoria Gray's book explores various aspects of her dream world with profound questions: Are dreams part of our reality? Should we pay attention to them, or are they just silly happenings in our sleep? Did Ford, in fact, live in the house she envisioned in her dream? Were dream names living during Mr. Ford's lifetime? Join Ms. Gray, as she unravels these and more connective aspects, which dreams starkly, yet remotely connects the past to one's sleepy psyche.
Download or read book Henry and Edsel written by Richard Bak and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Samuel Simpson Marquis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Night Henry Ford Met Santa written by Carol Hagen and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could Henry Ford have taken his idea for an automobile assembly line from the elves at the North Pole? Maybe so. Set just before Christmas in 1908, this charming tale finds Henry Ford puzzling over a way to make his Model T affordable for the average family. His little son Edsel suggests that Daddy write to Santa for advice. Since Santa makes toys for millions of children, Edsel points out, he must know a better way. Henry writes the letter just to please his son, but Santa actually answers by taking Henry to visit his North Pole workshop. When he sees the elves working in a line, each completing just one specific task on every toy that's made, Henry Ford envisions an automobile assembly line. The story not only illustrates that children can teach adults how to dream, but it also provides an author's note with factual information about Henry Ford and the Model T.
Download or read book Henry Ford s Own Story written by Rose Wilder Lane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Henry Ford's Own Story' by Rose Wilder Lane tells the inspiring story of how a farmer boy rose to become a business magnate and never lost touch with humanity. This book chronicles Ford's humble beginnings in Michigan, where he began repairing and later constructing engines, and his ultimate success with the Ford Motor Company. Ford revolutionized American industry with his introduction of the Model T automobile, and his commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations. Despite his immense wealth, Ford remained grounded and believed in treating workers fairly, implementing the five-day work week and high wages for workers. This compelling biography offers an insightful look into the life and legacy of one of America's most influential figures.
